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To: mlo

“In those sections that make the Constitution the supreme law of the land, and the courts the judge of the law. The law includes the Constitution. Presidents are subject to the law too.”

Right. After nine years of a bloody war the Founders set up a system that allows unelected judges to be the final arbiter of what is or is not constitutional. The founders wanted to establish the same system of arbitrary tyranny they had just beat on the battlefield, right?

Go ahead and name and quote the Founders who argued for judicial supremacy over the legislative and executive branches.


51 posted on 03/16/2017 7:33:00 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: sergeantdave
"After nine years of a bloody war the Founders set up a system that allows unelected judges to be the final arbiter of what is or is not constitutional."

Yes, absolutely. They intentionally made them unelected and gave them lifetime appointments. They intentionally made the courts a seperate but equal branch of government. This is the American system. I'm sorry that you don't like it, but it's supposed to be rule of law and not of men.

"The founders wanted to establish the same system of arbitrary tyranny they had just beat on the battlefield, right?"

No, that is your own mistaken characterization. It is not arbitrary tyranny. Arbitrary tyranny would be an executive that is free to do as he wills, with no checks on his power. They system they established is one of distributed power.

That does not mean that every person always makes the right decision. But that's the point. They didn't want all the power held by one person.

59 posted on 03/17/2017 10:18:04 AM PDT by mlo
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